Color

#2c494e

#2c494e
hex#2c494e
rgbrgb(44, 73, 78)
hslhsl(189, 28%, 24%)
oklchoklch(0.385 0.036 209.5)
Closest name: Charcoal (#36454f)Relative luminance 0.0585

Colors that go with #2c494e

Steel Blue, Teal and Sienna lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4e312c

#2c4e42 · #2c384e

#4e2c49 · #494e2c

Split-complementary

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#4e2c38 · #4e422c

#422c4e · #4e312c · #384e2c

Contrast

#2c494e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.68:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #4b7d86 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #669fa9 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b3b3b3 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #2c494e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#2c494e reads as cool, muted, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #2c494e
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #2c494e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/2c494e-a2b7be-df4e7e-1f252d-e9f1ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md